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Mark Hertsgaard

Author, 'Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth'

Mark Hertsgaard, the environment correspondent for The Nation, is the author of six books that have been translated into sixteen languages. This article is adapted from Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, which will be published in January 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.